I’ll add my vote for the cone, too. This is the easiest and fastest way to do it. My only difference is that instead of a knife, I have a pair of pruning shears that I keep very sharp and use for nothing else. They cut the rooster’s head clean off, and fast.

I've killed sick birds with a hand axe before, and it's not great.

I've done the cone + neck cut before, and I … was left wondering if I did it "cleanly".

With last year's flock, I did a .22 to the head for the (Complete Asshole prime rooster) and the extra boys, and that's what I'll do in the future. Simple and effective.

But, yes, you need to accept the responsibility of dispatching birds at the appropriate point, and in a quick and "humane" way.

gadooshed

It’s pretty simple, get a 2L bottle of soda. Create a funnel with the bottle and cut an opening for the chickens head on top (this is a real version)Tie the feat, invert the chicken and put head through cone. At this point the chicken should be pretty calm. Use a knife dispatch the bird by removing the head. Let the bird bleed for several minutes, then get a big pot and get water right before boiling temp. Drop the whole bird in it for about 45 seconds. At which point you’ll remove it and start plucking the feathers. I usually grab a stool and get a plastic contractor bag and defeatjer over it. (It’s a smelly and gross process) after the bird is featherless you’ll go to the backend of the bird and cut AROUND the tail and create a cavity almost to the base of the rib cage. Remove all guts including the neck and you’ll essentially have a store bought raw chicken. Process takes about 45 minutes if you do it all at once.

As for butchers/slaughter houses I don’t think there’s any in the area that would be willing to provide their services for only one bird. Dm me if you have any questions and as always open a guide online and when cleaning the bird there’s much better step by step guides on the Internet.

There are a number of mobile butchers around who will do it, but they usually have minimums (25ish). If you’re going to keep birds, you’re better off learning the skill because you might need to do it on a moment’s notice.

Not sure if they still do, but a friend of mine in high school got pulled over and fined for tossing an empty Gatorade bottle out his window while driving. This was 13-ish years ago in a small town where the cops didn't have much else to do, but littler is definitely getting worse. As so.eone else suggested, volunteer for green up day.

Yes, that's likely the most convenient and efficient way as it also contains the bird itself, much easier to work with than the old "hatchet & stump" method.

You can buy them really high quality for fairly low cost, make your own if you're at all handy. Or even, depending on your tolerance for larceny, 'procure one' during highhway construction/repair season. It hapens. ¯\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯

This is the proper way to slaughter chickens.

Great ! Hooray for capitalism .

Don’t know the answer to your question.

Where abouts?

Pretty sure other states are worse.

Volunteer for Green-Up Day, May 6.

You are confounding the law with the desire of a private company.

If you have paid for goods or services, a private company cannot legally hold you. You have done nothing wrong.

What makes you say that?

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Yes it does. Are you saying that's different from what I said?

>Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

I am proposing we take private property, aka second homes, for public use. That clause says we can't do that unless we provide just compensation. In other words, like I said, the government can't take people's stuff without paying them for it.

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Stick season is late Oct until snowfall. Right now for some e it’s mudseason

Costco had been doing this forever, even with no self checkout. I always assumed it's an insurance thing. It's not like it takes long. Who cares?

Ya those things you named are why there's so few residents

Vermont is addressing the many zoning laws that will make this difficult right now. Some towns are loosening up their restrictions. Maybe find the town that won't restrict you and start from there. People certainly do this, I know someone doing in E. Montpelier right now.

That clause says just compensation must be given

Downvote me but I’ve lived in VT all my life and never heard of stick season till some guy sang about it to flatlanders. I’ve heard of mud season, but am unfamiliar with this stick season people from CT grumble about l.

We’re not in stick season lol

Snowing heavily right now in the hills above St. J about 10 minutes to the west. No idea how much of this is accumulating in town.

A guy with less than 10k followers on IG being considered a note worthy influencer is the most Vermont thing ever.

I in my second season I kept them around to scare away predators. Not always successful, but one of the roosters completely traumatized an aggressive fisher once. The roosters kind of patrolled outside the coop. I'm not sure how humane that is, though, since they did end up getting gadooshed eventually.